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The people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir have been facing the worst situation of human rights violation for the last many decades but none of the so-called caretakers of human rights violation is ready or even willing to listen to their painful sighs and cries.
| by Ali Sukhanver
( October 27, 2012, Islamabad,
Sri Lanka Guardian) This beautiful world around us is a very strange blend of
contradictions and incongruities. We condemn the same thing which we had once
appreciated and admired when it directly affects our own specific interests.
This prejudiced trend is more popular with the western society than the other
parts of the world. Since India is trying her level best to prove herself an
equal and parallel to the countries like US and England, one can find the same
hypocritical bent of mind there also.
Human rights violation is one of the most favourite topics for the
western society which feels pride in calling itself a philanthropist society.
But unfortunately all its humanitarianism and preaching of kindness comes to an
end when the victims of human rights violations are the Muslims. Be it Iraq,
Iran, Lebanon, Palestine, Afghanistan or Pakistan; the western countries
display the same unconcern and indifference to the situation. And when it is
the issue of human rights’ violation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir, this cold
apathy reaches its climax. The people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir have been
facing the worst situation of human rights violation for the last many decades
but none of the so-called caretakers of human rights violation is ready or even
willing to listen to their painful sighs and cries. In the blood-dripping
valley of Kashmir, every day dawns with fear of new episodes of terror and
horror and every sun sets with so many sad incidents of cruelty and brutality
in its lap.
Dr. Maiti, a Professor of
Political Science at Rurdwan University, W Bengal, India says in his article Human Rights Violation in Kashmir, “Most
Kashmiris claim that the occupation of Kashmir by India is illegal. They do not
want to be part of India nor do they want any Indian presence on their soil.
The provisions of the Instrument of Accession, if genuine, stipulated that the
accession to India was to be ratified by a plebiscite. Since 1947, India has
occupied Kashmir and has stalled, by whatever means at her disposal, the
progress towards the holding of a plebiscite - the original and the most
universally accepted solution”. He further says, “Rape continues to be a major
instrument of Indian repression against the Kashmiri people while the majority
of casualties in Kashmir are civilians. The Indian authorities have also
steadfastly refused to allow any independent monitoring of the situation.”
These words by an Indian analyst are no doubt a slap on the face of world’s
so-called biggest democratic state but what to do when words become just
meaningless sounds. Turning a deaf ear to the agonizing cries of the Kashmiris
and crushing all their basic rights is simply the name of a tradition, a
culture and a civilization. Beginning from the 27th of October 1947
till now, no one could change this tradition. 27th of October 1947
was the day when India, throwing the Indian Independence Act and Partition Plan
1947 into a dust-bin, landed its army in Jammu and Kashmir. Thousands of
Kashmiri Muslims were slaughtered by the forces of Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh
and Hindu extremists and countless Muslim women were raped. Till today the
Indian army is repeating the same story of callous brutality. The Kashmiris in
the Indian Occupied Kashmir are so helpless and feeble that they could do
nothing but remember the 27th October as a Black Day every year.
Kashmir was since ever a Muslim majority state and according to the partition
plan it must have been a part of Pakistan but the Hindu conspirators in
collaboration with Dogra Maharaja Hari Singh did an injustice to the people of
Kashmir and announced it a part of India
on the basis of a baseless, fake and controversial document. Even the UN
Security Council’s resolutions could not force India to draw back her troops
from the Occupied Kashmir and give the right of self-determination to the
people of Kashmir. Today the people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir are living
in a hell where all that belongs to them is at stake. Their sons are
slaughtered, their daughters are raped, shops are ransacked and homes are
burned, the heads of families are kidnapped and kept in illegal detention for
years and years by the Indian military troops.
The annual UNHRC ‘Report of the
Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances’ was published on
February 6, 2012. The Working Group was the first UN Human Rights mechanism to
be established with a universal mandate. The report says that between1989 and
2009 the actions of military and paramilitary forces in Kashmir resulted in
more than 8,000 enforced and involuntary disappearances. According to a recent
report released by the Kashmir Media Service, from January 1989 to June 30, 2012 the total number of Killings in
Kashmir by the Indian forces had been 93, 763 whereas more than 10,033 women
had been gang-raped. The report says that as a result of the brutalities of the
Indian forces in the Occupied Kashmir more than 107,436 children were orphaned
and 22,763 women widowed. It is not only the 27th October but
every day is a Black Day there in the Indian Occupied valley of Kashmir. The
people of the Indian Occupied Kashmir are looking towards the world
peace-makers for the remedy of their pains and sorrows. They also want a
peaceful and prosperous life of independence liberty and sovereignty. They are
waiting for someone who could save them from the clutches of this never-ending
series of atrocities.
( The writer is a professor)
